2006 Goya Award Winners
by Andre Soares
The Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España) has announced the winners of the 2005 Goya Awards. Not surprisingly, the Best Picture was front-runner La Vida secreta de las palabras / The Secret Life of Words, the story of a young woman who takes care of a man blinded by a work-related accident.
This English-language psychological drama stars Tim Robbins, Sarah Polley, Javier Cámara, and Julie Christie, and was directed by Isabel Coixet, the winner of the Best Director and Best Original Screenplay Goyas.
The best actor winner was Óscar Jaenada for Camarón, a biopic of the renowned flamenco singer, and the best actress was Candela Peña for Princesas, a dark tale about two prostitutes. (Since most of the cast of The Secret Life of Words is not Spanish, they were — unfortunately - ineligible for the Goyas.)
Woody Allen’s British-made Match Point won the Goya for Best European Film, while Tristán Bauer’s Iluminados por el fuego / Enlightened by Fire (Argentina) won in the Best Spanish-Language Foreign Film category.
According to the official site of the Spanish Academy, the institution has 847 members. Mirroring the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, actors — 232 in all — comprise the largest branch of the Spanish Academy.
Full list of the 2005 Goya Awards winners and nominees
More on Iluminados por el fuego
Screen Actors Guild 2005 Winners and Nominees
Directors Guild of America 2005 Winners and Nominees
Hollywood Foreign Press Association 2005 Golden Globe Award winners and nominees
List of the British Academy of Film 2005 nominees
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